Jack McPhee

Jack McPhee arrives in Capeside as the new kid, an outsider whose easy charm and athletic promise mask a family in quiet disarray. He's a talented writer thrown into Joey's orbit, but he's also carrying something he hasn't said out loud yet, watching more than he speaks.

Kerr Smith plays Jack with a careful stillness that makes his eventual honesty land like a held breath finally released. The show used him to push its small-town world further than it planned to go, and Smith never treats that as a lesson — Jack stays funny, awkward, and specific rather than symbolic.